Erick's Mistress Getting RX Supercharged
 

I think the Secret is out!
I bought V6owner's RX Supercharger.
It's being installed Right NOW! :happyanim:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-F...617_103021.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C...617_132639.jpg
A little fabrication on the back side of the bumper so the intercoller will fin in front of the new fan.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-q...617_164629.jpg

Congrats!!

Thank YOU Sir!

Ok Erick, I want you to take me for a ride in that once you get it done.

You got it partner

You also have to come to Texas so I can get a ride lol

Good to hear V6owner's SC found a new home. Congrats!

Nice. Keep us updated.

Nice!

Congrats.....


Btw, that was you. :lol: Gald someone got it.


There were a few times I was going to pull the trigger on it, but my car had a different fade.

Gratz

Permagrin is coming !

Congrats

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From what I know he has called but couldn't get ahold of anyone

Day one down. I was hoping to be on the road tonight.
I think the biggest issue is that the belt tensioner is off alignment.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7...617_174936.jpg

Tracy - I'll have the installer call you tomorrow.

good luck bro!!

That's one of the issues I had, but it wasn't that bad. I filed down the lip where the bolt sits on the tensioner which allowed it to become aligned. Not sure if that will fix your issue though. Good luck.

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Did you hapen to take any pics?

Looks like your going to need a whole new pully or pieced fabbed up to make that work. Good luck.

No. Literally all I did was file down a little bit of the lip where the bolt hole is on the tensioner. But mine wasn't too far off to begin with.

Yours is misaligned in the same direction mine was. If it was the other direction you might be able to shim it, but you cannot in the direction you need to go. Your options would be to file down the lip on the bolt hole, but I don't know if there is enough to file down to fix that misalignment. Your other option is to grind down the thickness of the bracket piece that connect the tensioner to the supercharger. Those would be the easiest things to do, IMO.

Hey Erick, I contacted Darren at your shop and he is Rockin and Rollin and has the alignment worked out.

:thumbup:

Found that the bracket is a bit short and the washer shims shown here on the outside, need to be moved to the inside. This seems to be a common adjustment which was re-engineered on the latest RX version.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...255BUNSET%255D

I'm having the erector set brackets shown here re-done:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3...255BUNSET%255D

They should end up looking similar to this:
http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...1068A0E665.jpg

You didn't like my modification with the brackets? Lol

Not so much. Good try though.

cool stuff... let me know when you're ready to try it out at Lapeer! ;)

And, I'll Still have a hard keeping up You!

Day 2 of the instal and getting closer but not done. The time is adding up and at $90.00/hr, I'm stressed.

They are currently working on the fitting in the air ducting. Everything is tight and in a couple of points parts are touching that shouldn't.

The duct between the belt tensioner and the fan are touching, and it still needs the coupler:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z...618_164809.jpg

The lower side of this duct passes a narrow space between the frame and radiator, requiring a bend of the power steering hose. This is going to be a rattle point:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...618_165108.jpg

Looking down the back side of the radiator you'll see the coupler that will go to the air cleaner.
The installer has decided to add a longer duct to the coupler so the air cleaner is more accessible from the top.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X...2-no/photo.jpg

Unfortunately all this is "normal" for the kit. I had all of the same issues. I addressed them recently with Jamie (the guy V6owner used). Definitely not the cleanest kit.

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I will get it taken care for you Erick. No stressing!

What shop is doing the install?

Vision Tire and Auto Lansing Michigan. They have a great team of highly trained techs, but they don't do this kind of thing every day. They do a lot of fleet work. I've used them for the last four years. They charge a little more but they worth it.

So now after you've had it a while, have you had any issues?

Alex's kit only came with the small L brackets that didn't reach the bumper support so we did what we could;)
it was the first kit installed outside of RX so we had little to work with.


Then when I installed the kit on Andrew's (white camaro) it came with longer brackets that reached the bumper support but it was the first LFX install so we had to tweak a few other spots. I even added some brackets here and there to help support everything.


All this stuff is normal pretty much. You also have to trim the right side fan so the tube can fit. But all the touching of parts is pretty normal lol and will work fine.

If you or Darren have any other questions feel free to call me again. I don't mind helping out since I've done a few of these. :thumbup:

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Inter-cooler brackets done by Vision Tire & Auto:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...SC%2B1%2B5.JPG

My car is a daily driver. I just don't want any trouble down the road.

I've just rolled over a year since I first supercharged my car. I've had various issues, most were attributed to going with the super chiller, so I switched it out with a custom air-to-air intercooler. You won't have any of those issues since you are using an air-to-air intercooler. The other issues I've had were belt misalignment (similar to you) and the tensioner bracket that connects the tensioner to the supercharger broke due to poor construction, so I redesigned it, had it water jet cut and then polished to eliminate any possible defects/stress risers.

Go to my build thread here and go mid way down page 3 to read information on that. Based on what I've seen of Alex's tensioner bracket, you should be fine.

The other thing is getting the tune perfect, since we cannot have a custom tune and have to use mail order tunes it is kind of hard to do..

Same with me and I feel for ya.

AWESOME, just now catching up to this thread too. See you at Lapeer. After the first race you are going to have t ospot me a few car lengths.

Believe me I understand. But looks like everything is gonna go together nicely. And you don't have the super chiller or the od pulley and those are the 2 areas I've seen trouble with. The only issue Alex had at one time was the tensioner but its been revised and the brackets and pulley is beefier so you should be good to go! And keep the stock spark plugs also. Don't get colder ones. That can give you issues also.

And again if you need any help I'm here ;)

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Thanks for all the comments and support guys.
I'm off to a business trip so won't be able to post anything new untill next Monday.
The car is in capable hands though. Can't say enough great things about Vision. They are doing a great job and I think they have overcome some issues that will hopefully help everyone. Issues aside, the system is solid, and should prove to be a great experience. Can't wait to share that with you all.